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Jacob deGrom pitches New York Mets to sweep of Miami Marlins, 9-1, plus more MLB scores

David Wright, Wilmer Flores, Jacob deGrom

New York Mets' David Wright, left, and Wilmber Flores talk to pitcher Jacob deGrom, right during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Saturday, June 21, 2014, in Miami. The Mets won 4-0. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jacob deGrom had a tiebreaking single and again shut down the Marlins with seven impressive innings, David Wright doubled twice and drove in two runs, and the New York Mets completed a three-game sweep of Miami with a 9-1 victory on Sunday.

Wright, Curtis Granderson and Juan Lagares each had RBI doubles, and Chris Young added a sacrifice fly for New York in its eighth win on a 10-game homestand heading into the All-Star break.

New York jumped over the Marlins, losers of four straight, and into third place in the NL East at 45-50.

DeGrom (3-5), who pitched seven innings in Miami for his first big league victory on June 21, struck out eight and allowing five hits and a run.

DeGrom got his first big league RBI after Brad Hand (0-2) intentionally walked Ruben Tejada to face the lanky former college shortstop. DeGrom lined a single to center for a 2-1 lead.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jayson Werth homered and drove in four runs, and Tanner Roark pitched seven strong innings to lead Washington over Philadelphia.

Ryan Zimmerman also went deep and had two RBIs, Ian Desmond knocked in two runs, and Anthony Rendon had three hits and an RBI for Washington, which won the last two games of the series and stayed tied with Atlanta atop the NL East entering the All-Star break.

Philadelphia scored two unearned runs off Aaron Barrett in the ninth to end with three runs or fewer for the 49th time this season.

Roark (8-6) allowed a run and four hits. He struck out six and walked none.

The Phillies dropped to 8-41 overall and 2-29 in their last 31 games when failing to score four runs. Cody Asche had two doubles and an RBI for Philadelphia, which fell 10 games behind Washington.

It was the second straight defeat for Philadelphia after a five-game winning streak.

Kyle Kendrick (4-9) continued his pattern of struggling badly in the first inning and then pitching well. The Nationals' first three batters scored on Werth's homer.

Price (9-7), who had his start pushed back one day because of a stomach virus, struck out five and walked one. The left-hander was pulled after giving up a leadoff single in the ninth to Melky Cabrera.

Because Price pitched on Sunday, he is ineligible to play in the All-Star game Tuesday night in Minnesota.

The Rays, who have won 11 of 15, got RBI singles from Logan Forsythe and Jose Molina. Jake McGee got three outs for his seventh save.

R.A. Dickey (7-9) gave up two runs and five hits over six innings. Toronto has not won a road series against Tampa Bay since April 2007, a span of 22 sets.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Kris Negron hit his first career home run, and All-Star Todd Frazier added a two-run shot as Cincinnati rolled into the break with a win against Pittsburgh.

Negron, called up from Triple-A Louisville on Thursday for his first appearance in the majors since playing four games in 2012, celebrated his first major league start with a three-run homer off Francisco Liriano (1-7) in the second inning. The RBIs were also the first of his career, and the hit was his second.

Frazier homered on the first pitch from Vance Worley in the sixth to send the Pirates to a 2-5 mark on their trip.

The Reds went 8-3 on their 11-game homestand against Milwaukee, the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh to finish the first half 10-0-1 in series against those Central Division-opponents.

Johnny Cueto (10-6), another Reds All-Star, overcame Neil Walker's home run and a 56-minute rain delay in the fifth to last six innings. Aroldis Chapman struck out the side in the ninth for his 21st save. Chapman has struck out a batter in 41 straight appearances.

SEATTLE (AP) — Sonny Gray limited Seattle to six hits and one unearned run in Oakland's victory.

Gray (10-3) earned his 10th victory and Sean Doolittle recorded the final four outs for his 14th save.

After managing just one hit off Seattle starter Chris Young through four innings, the Athletics broke through in the fifth. Brandon Moss hit his 21st home run to extend the A's lead to 3-1 in the sixth.

Young (8-6) allowed three runs and five hits with just one walk and two strikeouts for Seattle.

Nick Punto added a solo homer off Joe Beimel in the ninth for the Athletics.

DENVER (AP) — Brian Dozier cranked up for the Home Run Derby at the All-Star game with two homers, and Minnesota beat Colorado.

Dozier hit a solo homer in the eighth and added a three-run shot an inning later for his first career multihomer game.

Late fill-in Chris Parmelee ignited a five-run first inning for the Twins with a two-run single. He replaced outfielder Oswaldo Arcia, who was scratched with the flu.

Hughes (10-5) earned his 10th win despite allowing five runs and 10 hits in five innings.

Brett Anderson (0-3) was rusty in his first outing since April as he allowed six runs — five earned — in five innings.

ORIOLES 3, YANKEES 1, 4 1/2 INNINGS, RAIN

BALTIMORE (AP) — Chris Davis hit a two-run homer to back a strong pitching effort by Kevin Gausman, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees in a game called by rain after 4 1/2 innings.

The Orioles scored all their runs in the fourth inning and Gausman (4-2) got three straight outs in the fifth. After Steve Pearce drew a walk in the bottom half, the rain came. The game was finally called after a delay of 2 hours, 22 minutes.

Gausman allowed four hits, struck out two and walked none in his first major league complete game.

Brett Gardner hit a leadoff homer for New York, but the Yankees didn't get a runner past first base the rest of the way. New York starter Chase Whitley (4-3) gave up three runs and five hits in 3 2-3 innings.